RIGA, Oct. 31 (Xinhua) -- The Latvian Supreme Court has rejected a lawmaker's appeal disputing the results of the Baltic country's 2018 parliamentary election, representatives of the court informed Wednesday.
Janis Klauzs, an MP of the ruling centrist Greens and Farmers Union, who ran for reelection but lost his lawmaker's mandate in the Oct. 6 poll, had filed two applications with the Supreme Court last week. One of them called for the annulment of the election result and the other for the invalidation of a decision taken by the Latvian central election commission.
The applicant said that on the election night he had noticed irregularities in the electronic vote tallying system's work, which in his opinion was the reason why his bid to get reelected failed.
The court, however, did not find any errors on the part of the central election commission or the electronic vote counting system' administrator. The court also ascertained that the election results had not been manipulated as a result of an illegal internal or external interference in the electronic vote counting system.
Arnis Cimdars, chairman of the Latvian election authority, said the court ruling was logical.
"As for the facts noticed by Klauzs on the election night, we made sure there was no interference from outside. We made sure the data were not manipulated and that all results were accurately recorded in polling stations' protocols, verified and processed. So, the ruling could not be different," said the chief election official.
Latvians went to the polls to elect the new parliament, the 13th Saeima, on Oct. 6. In all, seven political parties won mandates in the new parliament, including the ruling Greens and Farmers Union, but its representation in the Saeima considerably decreased.
